The industry veteran has joined the agency's TV Lit department and started work Monday. He'll be based in Paradigm's Beverly Hills office.

The literary agent comes from the Kaplan Stahler Agency, where he started in 2007 and worked with a long roster of clients including Adam Hoff and Justin Herber, who were among the 2012 Young and Hungry List, as well as Sons of Anarchy's Liz Sagal, writer-director Rod Holcomb (ER) and Alison McDonald (She Got Problems), the latter of which had her short in development at ABC.

Simmons, who started his career at ICM, joins a TV Lit department under Paradigm head Debbee Klein, whose clients include Shane Brennan, Neal Baer and Don Reo and Chuck Pratt, among others.